It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.